Controls Engineer: Power Generation
OpenAI · US - Remote
Frontier labremoteSenior$177k–$285k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design automation for on-site power generation for large AI data center campuses.
- Own controls from concept through factory testing to commissioning and tuning.
- Integrate generation, microgrid controls, and data center monitoring at scale.
What they offer
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Experienced controls engineer from power generation or mission-critical plants who thrives owning complex integration from design through commissioning and turning field lessons into reusable standards.
Requirements
- 8+ years of controls, automation, or instrumentation engineering in power generation, industrial plants, utilities, or mission-critical infrastructure
- Strong experience with PLC, DCS, SCADA, historian, industrial networking, and control-system integration
- Knowledge of generation controls, synchronization, load sharing, protective interfaces, process control, and safety interlocks
- Experience developing functional specifications, sequences, I/O, alarms, graphics, and factory or site test procedures
- Ability to troubleshoot across software, instrumentation, electrical, mechanical, communications, and process boundaries
- Understanding of industrial cybersecurity, redundancy, failover, and change-control practices
- Bachelor's degree in controls, electrical, mechanical, chemical, computer engineering, or related field
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets
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